US General: Russian Cruise Missile ‘Deliberately’ Threatens NATO

Years of on-again, off-again complaining about Russia’s development of a new land-based cruise missile, dubbed the SSC-8, continued today with Gen. Paul Selva, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, angrily accusing it of posing a threat to NATO.

“The system itself presents a risk to most of our facilities in Europe and we believe that the Russians have deliberately deployed it in order to pose a threat,” Selva told the House Armed Services Committee. This is presumably true, since the point of deploying missiles is as a threat to counter-balance threats posed by the other side.

While the US had previously accused the missiles of violating the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty of 1987, Gen. Selva made no such allegation today, saying only that such missiles violated “the spirit” of the treaty. This presumably means, as Russia has insisted, they don’t violate the letter of the treaty.

It’s not clear when the missiles were actually deployed, or if they are nuclear-armed in the first place. Most of the speculation centered around a single 2008 test of such a missile, and more recently the removal of the X from the NATO designation, meaning the missile was no longer considered experimental, fueled more media attention.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO. NO….. Does this mean that all the mlssile defence angst was misplaced. So now the Russians have perhaps answered the phoney nonexistant Iranian missile challange, that we can now sleep sounder because the Russians CAN if provoked mount an attack with real missiles and very real and we’ll tested nukes, which apparently our new anti-missile system can’t counter……????? Why else dies dimwit general get so nuts…??? Makes one wonder if Washington was very smart in the way they handled this issue…

Well let’s hope more sensible events will follow this deployment which is an answer to the supposed Iranian “threat”… response by the U.S. What a tangled Web we weave when everything we say is a lie….

NATO says it is going ahead with its plans to deploy thousands of troops and military hardware to three Baltic States and Poland that all border Russia. The military alliance claims that the measure is a response to a Russia’s military build-up and increased activity around NATO’s borders.

OOOOooooooo, the outrage being voiced here by Americans! It’s just so obvious that hardly any American on this site can sit still for this one. While of course it’s not going to raise an eyebrow amongst 9/10’s of them who don’t pretend at this antiwar schtick.

Maybe it’s a delay reaction of about 4 years for Trump and everything that happens in that 4 years is Obama’s doing?

The escalation in Syria, the current snub of China’s offer of talks on N.Korea, and now this with Russia, simply cannot have anything to do with Trump.

The reason why we know that is because Trump said everything will be very, very beautiful.

You have a valid point here, Don. What’s gotten into Americans, especially, Gen. Paul Selva? This outrage, as you say, is just so obvious that hardly any American on this site can sit still for this one .. That’s how ridiculous it is. Of course it’s not going to raise an eyebrow among 9/10’s of them who don’t pretend at this antiwar schtick.
You nailed this one, Don .. Perhaps it’s a delay reaction of around 4 years for Trump and everything that happens in that 4 years is Obama’s doing?
The escalation in Syria, the current snub of China’s offer of talks on N. Korea, and now this with Russia, simply can’t have anything to do with Trump .. However, it does have everything to do with the deep state, which doesn’t want world peace, but the destruction of humanity.